amd banked on multi core and hsa, both way too ahead of their time when the software is still heavy reliant on fat cores, and apus while better than intel+igpu

amd banked on multi core and hsa, both way too ahead of their time when the software is still heavy reliant on fat cores, and apus while better than intel+igpu today are simply regarded as good choice for portable devices or hpcs with good cpu and gpu with low tdp...but i seem to remember that was not the point! the point was to take advantage of the fact that the gpu and cpu are closer... amd bought ati right before the release of the r600 lineup which totally lost against nvidia 88xx cards and marked nvidia for gpu domination for years to come, so they acquired a company right before their biggest product failure, and after that they released phenom 1 which was a failure in its own right, after these 2 consecutive big lost they had to go fabless because couldn't afford to keep up the pace with technology and because of low demand they were not running full time ...this brought a lot of other complications for amd, because of missed deadlines of pp and in general not competitive to intel... after having modestly recovered from the phenom fiasco with phenom2, and with r700 gpus, it tanked again with bulldozer after lots of delays...then released a decent version with vishera which was a good enough contender to intel ivy-bridge, except for power/efficiency because they were already behind in the pp, after that to regain margin with intel an entire pp was skipped and amd stalled in the high highpower market focusing only on low power pp with apus, going for zen, thank god GCN was good enough to make them keep a sizable market in the gpus...